Hello,
It's been a while since my last post. I've spend more time fishing for pike in 2017 than metal detecting. The summer season yielded less euro-coins than previous years. I've found no silver on the beach in 2017 and I had only five water-hunts wading in fresh water.
On the 3rd of January we had our first storm of 2018 on the Dutch coast. Tide and wind coincided perfectly and caused some beach erosion. Yesterday evening (Sunday 7th) I had a short hunt of 2 hours. This was the third hunt since the storm and I bagged my first gold ring of 2018 and the first for my CTX 3030 which I purchased last spring. The ring is slim, weighs 1,96 g, is bi-color white and yellow, has no hallmarks but tested 14 k with the acid test. It also has four small stones (the setting is open on the back site). I haven't tested the stones yet.
I finally am getting to know the CTX better. My brother hit the same stretch of beach on the 5th and missed this ring with his Explorer.
Other loot: 1 kg (> 2lbs) of lead net weights (>40 weights in 2 hours!). A .50 calibre bullit The weights, bullits and other miscellaneous copper scrap is coming from beach replenishment.sand. This stretch of beach was replenished 2 years ago. The lead weights marks the spot were the dredge pipe ended and the heavier stuff settled first. Lots of ice-age cobbles too. Spot like this sometimes yield 17th and 18 th century coins and other stuff from ships.
Happy new year!
Regards Kossie
[attachment 353556 Ring4stones.jpg]
It's been a while since my last post. I've spend more time fishing for pike in 2017 than metal detecting. The summer season yielded less euro-coins than previous years. I've found no silver on the beach in 2017 and I had only five water-hunts wading in fresh water.
On the 3rd of January we had our first storm of 2018 on the Dutch coast. Tide and wind coincided perfectly and caused some beach erosion. Yesterday evening (Sunday 7th) I had a short hunt of 2 hours. This was the third hunt since the storm and I bagged my first gold ring of 2018 and the first for my CTX 3030 which I purchased last spring. The ring is slim, weighs 1,96 g, is bi-color white and yellow, has no hallmarks but tested 14 k with the acid test. It also has four small stones (the setting is open on the back site). I haven't tested the stones yet.
I finally am getting to know the CTX better. My brother hit the same stretch of beach on the 5th and missed this ring with his Explorer.
Other loot: 1 kg (> 2lbs) of lead net weights (>40 weights in 2 hours!). A .50 calibre bullit The weights, bullits and other miscellaneous copper scrap is coming from beach replenishment.sand. This stretch of beach was replenished 2 years ago. The lead weights marks the spot were the dredge pipe ended and the heavier stuff settled first. Lots of ice-age cobbles too. Spot like this sometimes yield 17th and 18 th century coins and other stuff from ships.
Happy new year!
Regards Kossie
[attachment 353556 Ring4stones.jpg]
